bear baiting
bear baiting is the alternative form of bearbaiting.
Meaning of bearbaiting
Noun
bearbaiting (countable and uncountable, plural bearbaitings)
- A blood sport in which dogs are set upon a chained bear
- But bearbaiting, then a favourite diversion of high and low, was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries.1858, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England
- A bloodthirsty free for all.
- All of these pivoted on the larger Problems: Not only how the press should discuss sexual morality of public officials but whether this ever should be a measure of fitness for public office; not only how the local press will allow its judgment to be pre-empted or conditioned by the Washington...1977, The Journalism Quarterly - Volume 54, page 454
Forms of bear baiting
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Questions about bear baiting
- What is bear baiting the alternative form of?
- Bear baiting is the alternative form of bearbaiting.
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